imaputil

Posted 2002-07-02 18:56. Last updated 2007-12-18 07:50. Tagged project, email, imap, perl.

Some simple command-line utilities for mail management over imap.

Since imap is a nice protocol to handle email messages independent of MUA, some functionality is wanted MUA-independently. imaputil is a few simple perl programs to run in a command line context.

These utilities depend on an external program to connect to the server and take care of the Kerberos and/or SSL stuff. I use imtest from the cyrus-imap package, but it should be easily replaceable.

Update 2007-12-18 07:50: A new release: imaputil 0.6 is on the ftp server.

• The imap-append command is addedd.
• Manual page corrections.

Update 2006-10-16 17:50: A new release: imaputil 0.5 is on the ftp server.

• The imap-quota command is rewritten to actually use the imap protocol with the IMAP QUOTA extension.
• All the commands now use $MAILHOST from the environment as the default imap server.

Update 2004-07-29 12:00: imaputil 0.4 is released. This release builds on imaputil 0.3, which is a merge by Mattias Amnefelt of my code and a similar project by Max Zomborszki.

Relase 0.4 tells the imap server which users mailbox to access, and adds a “-u user” flag to change it. The imap-du program now got a “-x” flag to make output suitable for xdu.

In release 0.3, program names was changed from e.g. imdu to more verbose names like imap-du, and imap-quota and imap-listfolders from Max’s project was added.

Update 2002-07-09 12:00: imaputil 0.2 is now released. This release introduces the imdu program, some new options, and a man page for each program.

Update 2002-07-02 18:56: I have released imaputil 0.1. This is the initial release of imaputil.